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    “reminder: you can love people and simultaneously not allow them to harm you”

    Yung Pueblo, Inward (Page 39)

      an apology to past lovers:

i wasn't ready
to treat you well

i didn't know love
was meant to be selfless

i didn't know my pain
had control over my actions

i didn't know how far away
i was from myself
and how that distance
always kept us miles apart

(blind heart)

~  Yung Pueblo, Inward (Page 23)

      Inward [Book]

        By: Yung Pueblo

        Book Overview: From poet, meditator, and speaker Yung Pueblo, comes a collection of poetry and prose that explores the movement from self-love to unconditional love, the power of letting go, and the wisdom that comes when we truly try to know ourselves. It serves as a reminder to the reader that healing, transformation, and freedom are possible.

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          “Many of us seek community solely to escape the fear of being alone. Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.”

          bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

            “A wise man loves not because he wants to profit from it but because he finds bliss in love itself.”

            Leo Tolstoy, A Calendar of Wisdom (Page 39)

              “If you can teach a person kindness and love, but you do not, you lose a brother.”

              Chinese Proverb, A Calendar of Wisdom (Page 29)

                “Christ expressed all His teachings in His last commandment: ‘Love each other, as I loved you. Everyone will see that you are my disciples, if you love each other.’ He did not say, ‘If you believe,’ but ‘If you love.’ Faith can change with time, because our knowledge is constantly changing. Love, on the contrary, never changes; love is eternal.”

                Leo Tolstoy, A Calendar of Wisdom (Page 20)

                  “There are two kinds of faithfulness in love: one is based on forever finding new things to love in the loved one; the other is based on our pride in being faithful.”

                  François La Rochefoucauld, via Sunbeams (Page 158)

                    “In the evening of our lives we shall be examined in love.”

                    St. John of the Cross, via Sunbeams (Page 154)